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From: diamond@cbmvax.commodore.com (Howard Diamond - Ed Marketing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: VPI Selects Commodore For Unix Platform
Message-ID: <14005@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 27 Aug 90 16:49:14 GMT
References: <4083@crash.cts.com> <13985@cbmvax.commodore.com> <975@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
Reply-To: diamond@cbmvax (Howard Diamond - Ed Marketing)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <975@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> U3364521@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Lou Cavallo) writes:
>G'day from down under,
>
>HD> In article <13985@cbmvax.commodore.com>, diamond@cbmvax.commodore.com
>HD> (Howard Diamond - Ed Marketing) writes: 
>
>VL> In article <4083@crash.cts.com> vle@pnet01.cts.com (Vinh Le) writes:
>VL> Will other university students be offered systems similar to the ones
>VL> offered at VPI?  At around the same price?  Do these systems also run
>VL> AmigaDOS 2.0, or are they strictly UNIX?
>VL> 
>VL>                                 Vinh Le
>
>Vinh, the following remarks are not related to your specific questions.
>
>HD> I keep answering this, but I'll try again. [...deleted for brevity...]
>
>Thanks for the efforts too Howard. I hope the enthusiasm of your net.readers
>isn't overwhelming you.
>
>I never cease to be impressed by the improving marketing developments by CBM
>and more so by the increased net.presence by CBM employees.
>
>I appreciate the efforts and I'm sure that many, many others do too.
>
>HD> Howard S. Diamond
>HD> Director of Education CBM
>       ^
>......| now this I find impressive. :-)
>
>When I originally read of your appointment, in several Amiga computer mags.
>it did not occur to me that we'd hear from you on the net someday.
>
>yours truly,
>Lou Cavallo.
>
>PS: I'm hoping to see moves here in Oz for the Education Market. :-)  It is
>hard for we `Oz' Amiga enthusiasts to see what is happening in the US while
>similar developments here are still unannounced.

Thanks for the kind words....I watch the net daily (at least on those few days
when I am in the office....  gee, if there were an Amiga laptop with a modem???)

I learn alot about what is really going on out there from the nets.... you all
have more impact on the ivory towers than you will ever realize.

Howard S. Diamond
Director of Education CBM